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On 2/27/2014 12:24 PM, Dan Johansson <dan@×××.nu> wrote: |
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> On 26.02.2014 22:24, Poison BL. wrote: |
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>> When I search FHANDLE in menuconfig I get: |
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>> |
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>> │ Symbol: FHANDLE [=y] |
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>> │ Type : boolean |
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>> │ Prompt: open by fhandle syscalls |
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>> │ Location: |
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>> │ (1) -> General setup |
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>> │ Defined at init/Kconfig:235 |
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>> │ Selects: EXPORTFS [=y] |
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>> │ Selected by: GENTOO_LINUX_INIT_SYSTEMD [=y] && GENTOO_LINUX [=y] |
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>> && GENTOO_LINUX_UDEV [=y] |
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>> |
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>> This clearly states that the prompt you're looking for is a line that |
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>> says "open by fhandle syscalls" under "General setup" |
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>> Sure, it's not the absolute simplest interface (i.e. it doesn't give a |
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>> 'enable this' in the search results) but it does give all the |
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>> necessary information about a given option to find it (as well as |
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>> dependencies and their current states, etc). The most likely reason |
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>> the news item doesn't list the specific "prompt" text (or even the |
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>> category) is that, across even sub release versions of the kernel |
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>> those are prone to change (and, at times, drastically) while the |
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>> actual CONFIG_<name> option tends to be fairly static through time |
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>> once it exists (even when superseded by new toys, i.e. older |
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>> IDE/ATA/ATAPI options vs newer PATA options). |
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> But if you press "1" in the example above you will "jump" directly to |
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> the menu item. Clue --> (1) |
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And that is by far the HANDIEST tip from this thread... awesome! Thx Dan! |
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